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News Headlines

• Millions Uninsured Despite Eligibility for Health Programs 5/12/08
• Health Care Premiums Keep Rising for Individual Payers 5/9/08
• LifePoint Wary Economy Could Push Up Bad Debt 5/8/08
• Tenet's Bad Debt Expense Rises to $148 Million 5/7/08
• Florida Hospitals' Uncompensated Care Costs Skyrocket 5/6/08
• Health Savings Accounts Favor High Income Consumers: GAO Report 5/5/08
• Solid Profits Point LifePoint to Acquisitions 5/2/08
• Self Pay Patients Don’t Have to become Bad Debt Write Offs: nTelagent 5/1/08
• MedAssets Buys Accuro, Could Reach 3,300 Hospital Clients 5/1/08
• Revenues Rise at Community Health as it Integrates Triad 4/30/08

Press Releases

• Highmark Medicare Services Achieves Certification to COPC-2000 CSP Standard 5/6/08
• General Audit Rebrands as Keybridge Medical Revenue Management 5/5/08
• NTelagent Penetrates Hospital Marketplace With Self-Pay Management System 4/29/08
• CSC Launches Global Healthcare Sector 4/25/08
• PR - Crescent Healthcare Increases Cash Flow on Aging Receivables by 50 Percent with VWA 4/24/08
• PR - MedAssets Announces Contract Expansion for Accounts Receivable Services 4/23/08
• PR - McKesson Lands Billing and Collection Contract with Hospital 4/23/08
• PR - Convergys Expands Work With UnitedHealth Group Members 4/18/08
• Healthcare Providers Decrease Bad Debt with nTelagent’s Self-Pay System 4/14/08
• PR - MedAssets Introduces PriceMaster for Defensible Pricing and Transparency 4/4/08

Analysis Headlines

• Maximizing Revenues in Troubled Times: Proven Methods of Extracting Water from a Stone
• The Tangled Web of Google Health – Online Medical Records Could Change Healthcare Receivables Strategies
• Accounting for Bad Debt: Charity Care, IRS Form 990, and ARM
• How to Maximize the Effectiveness of your Healthcare Collection Agency
• The State of the Industry: What is Next for ARM?
• Healthcare Without a Net
• State Healthcare Reform and the Collection Industry
• Healthcare Debt: Not Your Typical Portfolio
• What Really Makes Healthcare Collections Unique
• Increasing Cash Collections: Best Practices for Healthcare Receivables Management

Research Headlines

• Kaulkin Report 7 Excerpt - Healthcare Industry is Unusually Diverse 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Healthcare Providers and Receivables Management 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Conclusion, Outlook, and Index 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Suppliers to the Healthcare Sector of the ARM Industry 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Threats to the Healthcare ARM Industry 
• Healthcare ARM Report - The Healthcare Industry and its Need for Receivables Management 
• Healthcare ARM Report - Healthcare Sector of the ARM Industry 
• Global Debt Buying Report - Healthcare Receivables in the U.S.